Omaha daily bee., 1887-08-21

manner; and Il took great nerve to do It, At
last Charles Harrison, proprietor Of the Cri-
terlon saloon, shot and killed an inoffensive
Mexican. Byers denounced the killing In
his strongest language. A mob of Harrison's
armed friends, led by Carroll Wood, made a
descent on the News Office, which was
then located in log cabin In the
Cherry creek channel. They siezed
Byers and carried him to the Criterion,
threatening his life along tho road with
knives and pistols. They determined to
lynch him, and would have done 50 but for
Harrison, who, like Byers, was Mason.
Harrison appeased the crowd, and taking
Byers from them into side room, pointed
10 window and told him that was the only
hope for escape. Byers sailed through
the window and got back to his office.
His printers were all armed with Win
chesters, and they prepared to defend
the property and their lives. When It be-
came known that Byers had escaped Carroll
Wood led second mob against the Office
George Steele. a gambler, who was riding by,
fired In and his fire was returned by the
printers. Constable Tom Pollock rode up
Blake street after Steele and shot him dead
at Sixteenth street. The gun over the man
aging editors door did the business. Tho
killing OF Steele broke the power of the law
less faction. Honest citizens were aroused
and they drove Carroll Wood and other des-
peradOes from the country. But for mouths
afterwards the News Office resembled an al
senal. In the Cherry creek flood of 1864 the
Office was washed away and the Washington
press carried several miles down the Platte
Byers went out Of journalism in 1875
JOHN w. GREEN, the oldest newsboy, pea
nut man, candy butcher and whatever else
you may call him, Is now on the Union Pa
ciic For thirty years he has been in this
line Of business, and since 1857 he has the
pride to say that there is no railroad In the
United States over which he has not trav-
eled. He was formerly companion OF
Tht mas Edison, the famous electrician, and
Jack Haverly, the minstrel manager, who in
those days were newspaper sellers on the
road.
IT'S good thing that Omaha policemen
are such poor marksmen, otherwise they
might hit some one during their promlscuous
fusilades. There is such thing as being too
fresh with a gun.
WHEN Mr.. c. r. Taylor, the Omaha agent
of the New York Life Insurance company,
induced that company to invest $780, 900 in a
ten-story building In this city, he gave as
surances that the business men would APP
preciate the enterprise. lie promised the
company that II the building were erected
he would secure 1t large business. He Is
already fulfilling his promises, and is very
much pleased at his success in securing a
large line of insurance among his friends
and business men generally. Such invest
ments as that of the New York Life in
Omaha will soon bring profitable return.
A CORRESPONDENT of the BEE sends us
the following singular story: On Saturday
| night, July Q, 1887. Morgan Orndorff, of
Long Grove, Scott county. Ia, had a dream
in which he went Tin his Sleep to Walnut
Grove. some two miles distant. and while
| there hunted for o bee tree and found one
with the bees flying in and out on the west
side of the tree some twenty feet from the
| ground, and flying as though the swarm was
a large and strong one. The dream awOke
him and he told his good luck and at break
| fast in the morning he informed the whole
family. After dinner he mounted horse,
rode to Walnut Grove, and then into the
heavy timber where he had been in his dream
and then and there found the bee tree exactly
as he had seen it in his sleep the night before.
This Is the third bee tree Mr.. Orndorff has
found in the last two years by dreanin 6
where they were and going the next day to
look them up.
The Knights OF Pythias are becoming a
very strong organization in Omaha. They
deserve great deal Of credit tor their enter.
prise in determining to erect six-story
building to cost 100000. The proposed loca-
ton, at the corner of Sixteenth and Daven-
port streets, is ono Of the best sites in the
city.
MAN who was arrested in Omaha yester
day for stealing cow gave the name O
Kleptokine. An eternal fitness in the name
sure enough.